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If you were planning to sing your heart out at Taylor Swift's concert in Philadelphia next July, you may be out of luck. The process is more complicated than you realize, and you could be out of the running for tickets.

The superstar announced her Reputation stadium tour dates on Monday. The closest dates are the Linc on July 14, MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey on July 21 and Heinz Field in Pittsburgh on August 2.

Ticketmaster’s “verified fan” system requires Swifties to prove their love and dedication to the popstar by engaging in social media tasks and activities around her new album, which officially dropped on Friday. Die-hard fans started the process months ago, August 25 to be exact. By completing "fan engagement acts" such as watching music videos, preordering Reputation, and buying TaySwift merchandise, fans boost their chances of getting tickets. Your priority score increases as you do more things.

Ticketmaster's Verified Fan system isn't a new concept. Bruce Springsteen sold most of his tickets to Springsteen on Broadway through this system. More tickets are ensured to the “verified fans,” which means less tickets are sold through secondary marketplaces, leading to higher prices.

Registration for Swift’s “verified fan” program ends Nov. 28 at noon. Fans in the program can buy a maximum of six tickets per concert.

Tickets for the general public go on sale December 13. 

Deleted surveillance footage recovered by the FBI shows Penn State fraternity pledge Tim Piazza was given at least 18 drinks in the span of 1 hour and 22 minutes, Centre County District Attorney Stacy Parks Miller said Monday afternoon. 

That footage triggered an onslaught of new charges against members of the now-closed Beta Theta Pi fraternity, including involuntary manslaughter, hazing and providing alcohol to a minor, Miller said.

"The prosecution views that as forced drinking," she said. "He never once obtained his own alcohol."

Twelve new defendants were implicated in the case Monday. Fourteen other members of the fraternity previously faced criminal charges in connection with Piazza's death. Several of those men now face new criminal charges, as well. 

Piazza's father, James Piazza, noted that witnesses and several accused members repeatedly claimed they didn't know what else happened to Tim "beyond what was seen in the upstairs video. 'And we don't know what happened in the basement.' Guess what guys? Now we know."

“[Tim] was a happy and caring human being and loving son who just wanted to join an organization to find friendships and camaraderie," he said. "Instead, he was killed."

Piazza, of Lebanon, New Jersey, died of a fractured skull and other injuries two days after drinking a dangerous amount of alcohol at a pledge ceremony and falling down basement stairs. 

He was discovered in the Beta Theta Pi basement the next morning unconscious and with severe head and abdominal injuries.

Security cameras showed Piazza spent an excruciating night in the fraternity as members made half-hearted and even counterproductive efforts to help him, including putting a backpack on Piazza to prevent him from rolling over and choking on his own vomit. 

Footage retrieved from the frat's extensive system of security cameras captured many of the events that day. But prosecutors say a fraternity member erased key footage from a basement camera.

It's been quite a run for U.S. Olympian Ibtihaj Muhammad. In 2016, she became the first American athlete to compete while wearing a Hijab.

Now... she has a doll in her own likeness courtesy of Barbie.

At the Glamour Women of the Year LIVE Summit Monday, Muhammad became the latest honoree as part of Barbie Shero program that recognizes female trailblazers. Muhammad was presented the doll by last year's Shero, body activist and model, Ashley Graham.

"Through playing with Barbie, I was able to imagine and dream about who I could become," said Ibtihaj Muhammad. "I love that my relationship with Barbie has come full circle, and now I have my own doll wearing a hijab that the next generation of girls can use to play out their own dreams."

Muhammad, one of Time magazine's "100 Most Influential People" of 2016, became the first female Muslim-American athlete to earn a medal at the Olympics, earning a bronze medal in the Team Sabre.

"Barbie is celebrating Ibtihaj not only for her accolades as an Olympian, but for embracing what makes her stand out," said Sejal Shah Miller, Vice President of Global Marketing for Barbie. "Ibtihaj is an inspiration to countless girls who never saw themselves represented, and by honoring her story, we hope this doll reminds them that they can be and do anything."

The doll will be available for purchase in 2018.  

Black Lives Matter Pennsylvania activist Asa Khalif was arrested Monday after he allegedly broke a window during a protest outside the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Office in Philadelphia.

Khalif and other protesters showed up outside the office on S. 12th Street unannounced Monday morning and demanded an immediate meeting regarding Attorney General Josh Shapiro’s open investigation of the deadly police shooting of David Jones, Shapiro's spokesperson told NBC10.

After he was advised that he needed to schedule a meeting, Khalif refused to do so, officials said. Khalif then allegedly began cursing repeatedly and pushed out a window panel of a security card access door.

Philadelphia Police officers then took Khalif into custody.

“Attorney General Shapiro has publicly stated when the investigation has concluded he will announce a decision,” Shapiro's spokesperson wrote. “Recently, Mr. Khalif was directly advised of that fact. We take this investigation seriously, appreciate its importance to the community, and are conducting a thorough review of the facts and the law.”

Charges against Khalif, who remains in custody, are pending. Protesters plan to hold a “Free Asa Khalif” rally at 7 p.m. on 21st and Hamilton streets.

Khalif and other local activists have been protesting the shooting of David Jones for months. Jones, 30, was shot in the back and buttocks by Philadelphia Police officer Ryan Pownall following a struggle on June 8.

Jones later died from his injuries.

Surveillance video shows Jones running away as he is shot. He was stopped for riding a dirt bike on city streets, which is illegal, and police say he reached for a weapon during a scuffle with Pownall.

After an investigation, Philadelphia Police Commissioner Richard Ross announced in September that Pownall was suspended with intent to dismiss. 

"There were serious policy violations that were committed — ones that were on video," Ross said during a news conference. "It's not even a question of what someone's perception was versus another's. I saw it. The shooting investigators saw it. And that's where it starts and stops."

Ross said Pownall's first attempt to shoot at Jones was justified under department policy, because it happened right after the struggle with a weapon.

Pownall's gun jammed, and as he fixed it, Jones dropped his gun and fled. He was at least 10 feet away and had his back turned to Pownall when he was shot, Ross said.

While Pownall was suspended, he has not been criminally charged. The Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Office began investigating the shooting after it was referred to them from the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office.

Several groups have protested in the weeks following the shooting. In July, protesters marched on the Police Administration Building and City Hall demanding a larger investigation. In August, dozens of activists protested outside of Pownall’s home in Northeast Philadelphia and called for his firing and arrest.

Philadelphia Fraternal Order of Police President John McNesby later referred to the activists outside Pownall's home as a "pack of rabid animals" and described the protesters as "racist hate groups determined to instigate violence." His comments drew criticism from both Khalif and Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney.

McNesby later responded that he never referred to a specific race in his remarks and had no idea what race the protesters were.

Penn Quaker basketball honored a South Jersey boy with a heart condition, Monday, by recruiting him to be a part of the team. NBC10's Cydney Long has the story.

With Thanksgiving just about a week away, food banks are in desperate need of donations. NBC10's Steven Fisher discusses how the aftermath of Hurricane Maria is making the food demand even greater this year.

Trying to prevent your pipes from freezing this winter? NBC10's Ted Greenberg has tips for homeowners as the bitter cold temperatures return.

A couple contacted Harry Hairston at NBC10 Responds after not receiving a refund on their booked trip to Puerto Rico, which was devastated by Hurricane Maria.

Former Vice President Joe Biden spoke about his new book on the Today show, Monday. The book, "Promise Me Dad," focuses on the ordeal of watching his son, Beau, battle brain cancer. NBC10's Erin Coleman reports.

Smartphones have revolutionized the ways in which people interact with each other. But not all of those changes are necessarily positive. For families, phones can mean a lack of face time (real face time, not the iPhone kind) between parents and children.

A recent survey by NBC10’s parent company Comcast suggests that the majority of families want their interaction with each other to be free of phones. The survey, conducted by Wakefield Research, revealed the following:

• Dinnertime is bonding time – Nearly every (98 percent) parent surveyed agrees that disconnecting from devices during mealtime improves family bonding.

• Parents can set an example – More than half (52 percent) of parents have been told by their children to put their device away during meals.

• Device-free meals are rare – More than 2 in 5 parents (42 percent) can’t remember the last time their family had a device-free meal.  And Millennial parents have an especially hard time remembering the last time they broke bread without a device at the table (49 percent), compared to Gen Xers (37 percent) and Boomers (33 percent).

• Sneaking screen time - Parents admit to taking away their children’s devices an average of once per week and more than half (56 percent) have found their children trying to sneak their devices when they were banned from them.

• Going to extremes to disconnect – nearly one-third (31 percent) of parents make their children leave their devices in a basket before bedtime, while 14 percent go so far as to disconnect their modems to stop Wi-Fi usage.

For tips on how to decrease phone and social media usage while increasing actual interaction and bonding with your children, watch Keith Jones’ report on NBC10 News at 11, starting at 11:15 p.m.

A sinkhole started spilling mud onto the lawns of Chester County residents. NBC10's Brandon Hudson shows us how a controversial pipeline was to blame.

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New Charges Filed in PSU Frat Death: Deleted surveillance footage recovered by the FBI shows Penn State fraternity pledge Tim Piazza was given at least 18 drinks in the span of 1 hour and 22 minutes, Centre County District Attorney Stacy Parks Miller said Monday afternoon. That footage triggered an onslaught of new charges against members of the now-closed Beta Theta Pi fraternity, including involuntary manslaughter, hazing and providing alcohol to a minor, Miller said. "The prosecution views that as forced drinking," she said. "He never once obtained his own alcohol.” Twelve new defendants were implicated in the case Monday. Fourteen other members of the fraternity previously faced criminal charges in connection with Piazza's death. Several of those men now face new criminal charges, as well. Piazza's father, James Piazza, noted that witnesses and several accused members repeatedly claimed they didn't know what else happened to Tim "beyond what was seen in the upstairs video. 'And we don't know what happened in the basement.' Guess what guys? Now we know."

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Driver Shoots at Car in Road Rage on I-95: Police are on the hunt for a driver who pulled out a gun and shot at a car during a road rage incident in Bristol, Pennsylvania. The victim told police he was driving a 2011 silver Hyundai Accent with a front passenger inside while exiting I-95 onto Route 413 in Bristol shortly before 5 p.m. Monday when he became involved in a road rage incident with an unidentified man driving a 2003 Buick Rendezvous SUV. The driver of the SUV pulled up next to the Hyundai and told the passenger to lower his window, police said. As the passenger lowered the window, the driver of the SUV pointed a semi-automatic pistol at the Hyundai and fired two shots. One bullet struck the top of the passenger door and rubber trim on the other side of the glass where the passenger was sitting, police said. The metal and rubber trim stopped the round from penetrating the victim’s vehicle. The other bullet entered the right rear quarter panel of the victim’s vehicle. The suspect fled the scene. Neither the driver nor the passenger inside the Hyundai were hurt.

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Jury Deadlocked in Menendez Bribery Trial: Jurors say they are deadlocked in the bribery trial of U.S. Sen. Bob Melendez. The note from the jury came shortly after 2 p.m. Monday, hours into a restart of deliberations necessitated by one juror's pre-scheduled vacation. The jurors said they were unable to reach a unanimous decision to any of the charges. The defense immediately requested a mistrial. The judge denied that request and, as is customary after one deadlock, ordered the group back to deliberations. He did let them go home early, though, telling them to "have a good meal, good sleep and come back" Tuesday to continue. Earlier Monday, the judge had paused deliberations to take time to individually question a number of jurors who had admitted to either reading or hearing something about the case over the weekend. The juror who was dismissed for her pre-scheduled vacation had made statements saying other jurors had said she couldn't send a note to the court advising the jury was deadlocked, and that she was told "her vote didn't count" because she was going to be released. After questioning the jurors, the judge ordered the group back to deliberations and downplayed defense concern the dismissed woman's comments could have contaminated their discussions. Menendez is charged with accepting gifts from a wealthy Florida eye doctor in exchange for using his political influence. He is also charged with making false statements for not reporting the gifts on Senate disclosure forms.

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Trump Jr. Messaged with WikiLeaks During, After Campaign: President Donald Trump's oldest son on Monday released a series of private Twitter exchanges between himself and WikiLeaks during and after the 2016 election, including pleas from the website to publicize its leaks. Donald Trump Jr.'s release of the messages on Twitter came hours after The Atlantic first reported them. In the exchanges — some of them around the time that the website was releasing the stolen emails from Democrat Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman — WikiLeaks praises his father's positive comments about WikiLeaks and asks Trump Jr. to release his father's tax returns to the site. The revelations are sure to increase calls in Congress to have Trump Jr. testify publicly as part of several committee probes into Russian interference in the 2016 election. And they add a new element to the investigations that have been probing for months whether Trump's campaign colluded in any way with the Russian government. In an intelligence assessment released last January, the NSA, CIA and FBI concluded that Russian military intelligence provided hacked information from the DNC and "senior Democratic officials" to WikiLeaks. WikiLeaks has denied that Russia was the source of emails it released, including those from Clinton's campaign chairman, John Podesta.

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Three New Jersey police officers and a former officer have pleaded not guilty to charges in a June car chase that ended with officers kicking and dragging a burning bystander.

The Jersey Journal reports attorneys for officers Eric Kosinski and Francisco Rodriguez, Lt. Keith Ludwig and former officer MD Kahn entered the pleas Monday in Hudson County Superior Court.

The four face charges including aggravated assault, and Kahn and Kosinski are charged with attempted murder. All were suspended without pay. Kahn was fired in connection with an unrelated matter.

Authorities say they chased a man whose car resembled one used in a shooting and kicked the driver of an unrelated car set afire following a crash. Attorneys for several defendants have said their clients were just doing their jobs.

Deadly gunfire rang out just before closing Tuesday morning inside a chain restaurant outside a New Jersey Mall.

The homicide happened around 12:25 a.m. inside the Applebee’s Grill + Bar restaurant that sits along Brunswick Pike (U.S. Route 1) outside the Quaker Bridge Mall in Lawrenceville, New Jersey, Lawrence Township police said.

The man died at the scene, the Mercer County Prosecutor's Office said.

No other injuries were reported.

Investigators searched for a dark-colored SUV that fled the scene, police said.

The chain eatery was open at the time of the shooting as it closes at 1 a.m. each night.

A New Jersey paddleboarder's incredible experience with a humpback whale over the weekend had him in awe, but his daughter says it was "too close."  

Brian Shea captured the stunning footage when he came up-close with a humpback whale on the weekend.

The Jersey Shore local took his board out at Long Branch beach Saturday in the hopes of seeing one of the spectacular mammals from the water. He said he'd recently seen two humpbacks feeding less than a mile from the beach and conditions were perfect for whale watching.

"I usually bring the GoPro with me, because you never know what you're going to come across in the ocean," he said.

But Shea had no idea just quite what he was going to come across this time.

As he paddled out, the dark outline of a whale can be seen slipping through the water about 20 feet away from his board. Suddenly, the whale breaks the surface just a paddleboard-length away from Shea. 

The father-of-two said his daughter, who often goes out with him, watched the video and said it was "too close."

"Generally I'm not scared of the dolphins or whales as they're not aggressive, but I also respect their space and appreciate that they are wild animals, so anything can happen," he said.

"With regards to Saturday's really close encounter, I was more in awe than afraid as I've gotten used to being so close to them and view the entire experience as something I'm so fortunate to see in nature."

Shea, who grew up swimming at New Jersey's Point Please Beach, said he has been out on the ocean for more than 40 years and considered this one of his most amazing experiences. The fact that New Jersey locals could see humpbacks in their natural environment just off the shore was something special. 

"Over the years we've gotten accustomed to seeing the dolphins on a nearly daily basis through the summer months," he said.

"With that, I also appreciate that you could sit on the beach, every day for the next 20-years & never see a whale…so what we've been experiencing at the Jersey Shore these past few weeks is really magical."

More videos of Shea's close encounters can be found on a Jersey Shore whale and dolphin watchers Facebook page. 

A school bus and motorcycle collided along a suburban Philadelphia road Tuesday morning.

The motorcycle, its headlight still on, was wedged under the bus after the crash along Chester Pike (U.S. Route 13) by Burton Lane in Sharon Hill, Pennsylvania around 6:30 a.m. Tuesday.

No word yet if anyone was hurt.

Delaware County dispatchers didn’t immediately know if any children were on board the yellow Southeast Delco School District bus at the time.

The school district didn't reveal any details about the crash and wouldn't say if any children were on board. All they said was that their "thoughts and prayers" were with everyone involved.

Police are on the hunt for a driver who pulled out a gun and shot at a car during a road rage incident in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

The victim told police he was driving a 2011 silver Hyundai Accent with a front passenger inside while exiting I-95 onto Route 413 in Bristol shortly before 5 p.m. Monday when he became involved in a road rage incident with an unidentified man driving a 2003 Buick Rendezvous SUV.

The driver of the SUV pulled up next to the Hyundai and told the passenger to lower his window, police said. As the passenger lowered the window, the driver of the SUV pointed a semi-automatic pistol at the Hyundai and fired two shots.

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One bullet struck the top of the passenger door and rubber trim on the other side of the glass where the passenger was sitting, police said. The metal and rubber trim stopped the bullet from penetrating the victim’s vehicle. The other bullet entered the right rear quarter panel of the victim’s vehicle.

The suspect fled the scene. Neither the driver nor the passenger inside the Hyundai were hurt.

The gunman is described as a man between the ages of 25 and 35, with brown hair, a mustache and a goatee. He was last seen turning right onto Rockview Drive in Bristol Township off Rt. 413. Police say he drove a 2003 Buick Rendezvous SUV with yellow “haze” front lamps.

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If you have any information on the suspect’s whereabouts, please call the Bristol Township Police Tip Line at 267-812-3036.

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